Sight and Sound

Out of this world : Aleksei German’s apocalyptic vision of life on a distant planet, ‘Hard to Be a God’, took him almost 50 years to make and is the logical culmination of a brilliant career. By Michael Brooke = 40 REGULARS Editorial : A certain tendency in British cinema = 5 Rushes Carol Morley takes a break in the Britain on Film archive = 6 Object Lesson: Hannah McGill wraps her head around headphones = 8 The Five Key…: neo-screwball films = 9 Interview: Sophie Mayer talks to the director of 52 Tuesdays, Sophie Hyde = 11 Dispatches: Mark Cousins examines what makes a good editor = 13 The Industry Development Tale: Charles Gant on the making of the Man from U.N.C.L.E. = 14 The Numbers: Charles Gant on Amy = 15 Brewster: Ben Roberts is looking for romance, GSOH essential = 16 Festivals : James Bell finds variety is the spice of life at Bologna’s Il Cinema Ritrovato = 18 Wide Angle Anne Morra on the thrill of discovering a lost film by Joseph Cornell = 50 Soundings: Robert Hanks reports from a conference on cinema and sound = 52 Primal Screen: Christine Leteux on the criminally neglected Maurice Tourneur = 53 Neil Young votes yes to FIDMarseille = 55 Sukhdev Sandhu digs Louis Henderson’s archaeological filmmaking = 57 Letter = 111 Endings : Michael Atkinson geeks out over Nightmare Alley = 112 FEATURES COVER FEATURES The S&S Interview: John Waters : For almost half a century the director has provided a beacon for the maladjusted and misunderstood – and been a bête noire for puritans. But while the BFI’s forthcoming retrospective in London might seem to grant a vaneer of later-life respectability to the pope of trach, don’t imagine he’s lost any of his mischievous ability to shock and offend. Interview by Kim Morgan = 20 Total trash : America’s taboo-busting trash classics offer gleeful celebration of everything that might appal a mainstream audience. By Tim Lucas PLUS I.Q. Hunter on the naïve energy of British cinema’s own cheap populism = 26 First love, last rites : In 45 Years, Andrew Haigh’s superb follow-up to Weekend, the ghosts of the past come back to haunt a long-married couple after the body of the husband’s former girlfriend is discovered in a melting glacier. Nick James talks to the director = 34 Vittoro de Sica: beyond neorealism : His reputation rests on classis tales of poverty and struggle in post-war Italy, such as Bicycle Thieves, but in career that spanned more than 30 films as director and 150 as an actor, there is so much more that deserves our attention. By Pasquale Iannone = 46 FILMS OF THE MONTH Marshland = 60 Me and Earl and the Dying Girl = 62 Mistress America = 64 The Wolfpack = 66 FILMS Ant-Man = 68 Buttercup Bill = 68 Cartel Land = 69 Closed Curtain = 70 The Clobber = 71 The Confessions of Thomas Quick = 71 The Diary of a Teenage Girl = 72 Dope = 73 The Ecstasy of Wilko Johnson = 74 52 Tuesdays = 74 45 years = 75 The Gallows = 76 Gemma Bovery = 77 Good People = 78 Hard to Be a God = 79 Housebound = 79 Looking for Love = 80 Magic Mike XXL = 81 Manglehorn = 81 Max = 82 No Escape = 83 North v South = 83 Paper Towns = 84 Precinct Seven Five = 84 President = 85 Pressure = 86 The Second Mother = 87 Self/less = 88 Southpaw = 88 Strange Magic = 89 Terminator Genisys = 90 Theeb = 91 Trainwreck = 92 True Story = 92 HOME CINEMA Operas from Gaumont, Cemetery Without Crosses, Contamination, Hue and Cry, The Ang Lee Trilogy, Man with a Movie Camera and other Vertov films, Post-war British thrillers, The Roberto Rossellini Ingrid Bergman Collection, Stalag 17, State of Grace, Story of My Death = 95 DVD features Brad Stevens gorges himself on Marco Ferreri’s La Grande Bouffe = 94 Nick Pinkerton rediscovers the Kubrickian fairytale Some Cal It Loving = 97 Lost and Found: Alex Dudok de Wit gets lost in the nomadic fantasy Gwen, the Book of Sand = 102 Television : The Avengers: Series 5, The Game, Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell, Quatermass = 100 BOOKS Jasper Sharp is bitten by the Jess Franco bug = 104 Hannah McGill on the new Scottish cinema = 105 Nick James welcomes a tribute to Penda’s Fen = 106 Michael Ewins browses a wide-ranging collection of essays on film preservation = 106 Nick Pinkerton on the inexhaustible Welles = 107

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